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Viscosity in psychiatry

Viscosity in psychiatry (synonyms: viscosity is mental, a viskoznost of mental processes) – the disorder of mental activity (affects, the speech, thinking) which is expressed its slowness, an insufficient pereklyuchayemost and flexibility.

Types of viscosity:

  • Affective – the viscosity of emotional reactions differing in tendency to jamming on some emotional experiences (chagrin, offenses, etc.) at a combination to easy emergence of rough affects;
  • Thinking – the viscosity which is shown inability to allocate insignificant and essential in the analysis of the phenomena, thoroughness and slowness of associative process, jamming of thoughts in consciousness, with limitation of the ideas and representations.
 
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